Diane Amann: "International Criminal Justice and the Value of Peace"

Diane Amann is a Professor of International Law at the University of Georgia Law School, after having been a Professor at the University of California at Davis for 16 years. Prior to joining academe, Professor Amann served as a judicial clerk for Judge Prentice H. Marshall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. She has also worked as an associate at Morrison & Foerster, as an assistant federal public defender and as a solo practitioner in San Francisco. She obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; her master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles; her law degree from Northwestern University, and her honorary doctorate from the Universiteit Utrecht. Her research examines the interaction of national, regional and international legal regimes in efforts to combat atrocity and cross-border crime. She has published more than four dozen chapters and articles in English, French and Italian. A frequent commentator in national and international media, Amann is the founder of the “IntLawGrrls” blog.